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Christian Science
by Mark Twain
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Christian Science". Published by Harper & Brothers in 1907. Measures 8" x 5-¼". First edition, first issue with 1907 on the title page and with "Published February, 1907" on the copyright page; With a boxed advertisement for the "Uniform Edition of Mark Twain's Works" with 17 titles listed and with 6 titles listed under the heading "Other Books by Mark Twain"; With the list of illustrations set in 8 lines including the heading and all turned lines; With the first state of the frontispiece captioned with the year 1906 (BAL 3497). Very good minus condition in the publisher's original gilt-stamped red cloth boards. Boards show moderate wear and handling, with a medium sized stain on the lower front part of the spine. Gilt design on front board very well preserved, gilt titling on spine very legible but slightly faded. Bookplate from the public library of Cincinnati, from being donated to their Mark Twain collection in memory of Michael Flaig by his parents. Not an ex-library copy. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front end paper. Otherwise interior is very good and likely unread.
Synopsis
From the book:This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright colored flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile. That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am acquiring that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. There was a village a mile away, and a horse doctor lived there, but there was no surgeon. It seemed a bad outlook; mine was distinctly a surgery case. Then it was remembered that a lady from Boston was summering in that village, and she was a Christian Science doctor and could cure anything. So she was sent for. It was night by this time, and she could not conveniently come, but sent word that it was no matter, there was no hurry, she would give me "absent treatment" now, and come in the morning; meantime she begged me to make myself tranquil and comfor-table and remember that there was nothing the matter with me. I thought there must be some mistake.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004131
- Title
- Christian Science
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
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